The following piece discusses the new criteria for local integration of Rwandan former refugees in Zambia, and was submitted to the Rights in Exile Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter by Reverend John Osmers, Assistant Bishop of Lusaka, Zambia. For reasons of […]
A Step-by-Step Guide to Digitising Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Processes in Low Resource Settings The Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Digitisation Guidebook (CRVS-DGB) is an online resource that provides step-by-step guidance for countries to plan, analyse, design and implement […]
Interior Ministry Assistant Undersecretary for Citizenship and Passports Affairs Major General Mazen Al-Jarrah stressed that many illegal residents have been claiming to be bedoons (stateless) while those registered in the 1965 census and the central apparatus for illegal residents number […]
A single passport for all AU member states is on the cards, and already two African countries have implemented it. This was revealed by AU Commissioner for Political Affairs Dr Aisha Abdullahi when she addressed media at the #Africities summit […]
The conference noted with concern that statelessness is a serious human rights issue that currently affects at least 10 million people globally. Given the remarkable fact that a stateless child is born every 10 minutes and that statelessness is widely […]
CEDAW/C/LBR/CO/7-8 Concluding observations on the combined seventh and eighth periodic reports of Liberia Nationality 33. The Committee notes the State party’s efforts to address challenges relating to its nationality legislation. It is concerned, however, that the Aliens and Nationality Law […]
Considérant la grande vague des candidatures déclarées ou pas encore et les opérations de recensement de la population, les questions de nationalité demeurent le tendon d’Achille du processus électoral en Centrafrique.C’est bien une question qui fâche et qui amène beaucoup […]
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This second short film by Darell Lourens for Lawyers for Human Rights on statelessness South Africa, tells the story of the child of Cuban parents born in South Africa who could not acquire her parents’ nationality. View the video.
Concluding observations on the seventh periodic report of Malawi CEDAW/C/MWI/CO/7 Extract: Nationality 28.Notwithstanding the administrative practice of not withdrawing the citizenship of women who marry foreign men, the Committee remains concerned about discriminatory provisions in the Citizenship Act, including with […]
A consignment of passports arrives in the country today (Friday), ending weeks of waiting for many Ugandans seeking to acquire or renew their passports. Ugandan passports are only printed in London and Malta. Nicholas Ongodia, the commissioner for Citizenship and […]
Some 140 Department of Home Affairs (DHA) offices across the country plan to close their doors between November 27 and December 2, as they upgrade live capture facilities that aim to accelerate the application processes for new Smart IDs and […]